| Fear of Narrative and the Skittery Poem of Our Moment
Hoagland, Tony
Poetry, March 2006, v187, #6, pp508-522
Hoagland explains why poetry has become fashionable, celebrated, taught, and learned in the last ten years. He observes that “American poetry has seen a surge in associative and ‘experimental’ poetries, in a wild variety of forms and orientations. Some of this work has been influenced by theories of literary criticism and epistemology, some by the old Dionysian imperative to jazz things up. The energetic cadres of MFA grads have certainly contributed to this milieu, founding magazines, presses, and aesthetic clusters which encourage and influence each other's experiments. Generally speaking, this time could be characterized as one of great invention and playfulness. Simultaneously, it is also a moment of great aesthetic self-consciousness and emotional removal.” Tony Hoagland teaches at the University of Houston and in the Warren Wilson MFA program.
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